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Twitter whistleblower

lundi 29 août 2022 à 06:33

The Twitter whistleblower says that Chinese, Russian and Indian government agents are getting special surveillance cooperation from Twitter.

The article talks in a vague sense about "intellectual property rights" that Twitter would need license for in order to train AI systems on various databases. Because that term is a misguided overgeneralization, the statement gives us no clue about which law it is actually talking about. None of the various laws that are foolishly lumped together under that term would be relevant to this. Maybe the statement is garbled, or has been confused by the use of the misleading generalization.

Video recordings of thugs in action

lundi 29 août 2022 à 06:33

Arizona Republicans have passed a law to impede making video recordings of thugs in action, creating an imaginary presumption that this somehow impedes them in acting lawfully. Various defenders of freedom of the press are suing.

Japan to return to nuclear power

lundi 29 août 2022 à 06:33

Japan plans a return to nuclear power.

Restarting idle nuclear power plants might be reasonable, if they can take adequate precautions against future tsunamis and earthquakes. Building new nuclear plants is absurd even if they are safe, because they cost too much and take too long. They are a bad strategy for decarbonization.

No connection between terrorism and Palestinian human rights groups

lundi 29 août 2022 à 06:03

The CIA couldn't find any connection between the Palestinian human rights groups and terrorism, but Biden refuses to criticize Israel for forcibly shutting them down.

Urgent: Human rights advocacy is not terrorism

dimanche 28 août 2022 à 19:18

US citizens: call on Biden to insist to Israel: human rights advocacy is not terrorism.

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